C anada's medical museums are, alas, in a sad state of decline. Indeed, they are dead or
moribund at many of our medical schools, anda shadowof their former selvesat others. In …

Museums in general have in the past only too often presented the triad of space cluttered up
with exhibits; rooms hushed and unoccupied by visitors; and a frowsty smell. Medical …

T HE Medical Museum is one of four major components of the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology, formerly the Army Medical Museum. In 1862 Surgeon General William A …

Context.—In the early 1900s, it was common practice to retain, prepare, and display
instructive pathologic specimens to teach pathology to medical trainees and practitioners; …

Librarian of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia The development of a medical
museum as an integral part of a medical library is a life-process which we might retard, if we …

L IBRARIES AND MUSEUMS have many things in common; they collect and they preserve.
Libraries specialize in books; museums concentrate on objects-natural ones or otherwise …

The stress and the high pressure of modern life is felt nowhere more keenly than in the field
of higher professional education. On all sides the demand is heard for a wisely simplified …

The Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is typical of the medical
museums that were once found in almost all medical schools. Contemporary visitors to this …

There are teachers of anatomy in North America who have never seen a teaching museum
of anatomy and, at the other extreme, many others who find this fact inconceivable. Such a …

THIS term,“Pathological Cab-inet,” was used by Dr. Rob-ert Ray, Jr., in the title of the
catalogue of pathological specimens of the New York Hospital which was published in i860 …